Clash of cultures coursework
How does the "Young Couple", the "Train from Rhodesia" and "Dead Man's Path" explore the clash of cultures? Culture is the term used to describe the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterises an institution, organisation or group. In the stories the idea of culture is thoroughly underlined and made clear to the reader. The reader is given two different types of culture that share opposite views and ideas, and when placed together it creates a clash of cultures. Culture clash is the term used to describe the misunderstandings, and disagreements between different cultures. Culture is learned, whereas the clash is the unlearning and relearning of new cultures. It is a common theme expressed throughout many of these stories, and each has their own way of putting forward the author's ideas on the clash of cultures and how difficult it is for two very different cultures to put aside their differences and see things in the same light. "The Young Couple" is a short story by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, who herself has a strong sense of Indian culture, having lived there herself for a period of time, which is heavily reflected in the story as she expresses the culture of a typical Indian family. The book is set in the early 1960s, which was a time when the two different cultures between an English girl and Indian family would have been extremely diverse, as
War Peotry
Compare and contrast the poems by Wilfred Owen and Rupert Brooke that you have studied. Comment on the poets' different attitudes to war and the effectiveness of their poetry in conveying their ideas and feelings. The First World War began with flag-waving, parades and writers stimulated by theoretical morals. Additionally, this war commenced with heroism by the notion that 'it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country'. And everyone thought that it was never going to last, as 'over by Christmas' was the national slogan. However, it shortly revealed to be a general failure to understand the true purpose of warfare. For many, the war came as an awakening to the full horror of what the twentieth century came to know as 'the great war'. "We must remember not only that the battle casualties of World War I were many times greater than those of World War II, wiping out virtually a whole generation of young men and shattering so many illusions and ideals; but also that people were wholly unprepared for the horrors of modern trench warfare. World War I broke out on a largely innocent world, a world that still associated warfare with glorious cavalry charges and the noble pursuit of heroic ideals. Those poets who were involved on the front, however romantically they may have felt about the war when they first joined up, soon realized its full horror, and this realization
In my essay I will be comparing the two poems nothings changed by Tatamkhulu Afrika and still Ill rise by Maya Angelou. My main aim in this essay is to discover how the two poets describe and express their feelings.
In my essay I will be comparing the two poems "nothings changed" by Tatamkhulu Afrika and "still I'll rise" by Maya Angelou. My main aim in this essay is to discover how the two poets describe and express their feelings. I will do this by focusing on their use of linguistic techniques and what effect this has given on the reader. Moreover, I will concentrated one how the poets have structured the poem, by carefully analyzing it. Maya Angelou Maya Angelou is one of the most renowned and influential voice of our time. She has many titles such as memoirist, novelist, educator, dramatist, producer, actress, historian, filmmaker, and civil rights activist. She was born on the 4th April 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri. At the age of 26 Angelou studied modern dance and poetry; however her studies did not stop there. She traveled to Cairo, Ghana, New York and in this time she had mastered French, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, and Fanti. In 1993 she composed a poem at Bill Clinton's inauguration; it was watched live on air all around the world. Stanza 1 "You may write me down in history, with your bitter twisted lies you may trod me in very dirt but still like dust ill rise" in his opening verse of the poem, the reader automatically senses Maya's attitude towards the reader and I felt as though she was spearing the reader with these words by saying "your bitter" by doing this I thought
Comparing and Contrasting Poems
Comparing and Contrasting Poems. Culture, tradition and faith, 'The Night of the Scorpion' by Nissim Ezekiel and 'Sacrifice' by Taufiq Rafat are two poems that revolve around these themes. The poets question and criticise these values and provoke the reader to think; should culture and tradition have any value in today's society? Is faith still a legitimate factor in the 21st century? Both poets debate this highly controversial issue through their personal recollection and feelings towards them now that they look back on them. Both titles have a magnetism to them which draws us in, curious and hungry for more. Rafat's title 'Sacrifice' is short and snappy where he effectively uses the negative connotation of the word 'Sacrifice', and uses the utter horror that people feel when they come to know that such a concept is still alive somewhere and not yet banished to the past. Ezekiel also employs the effective use of negative connotation of the words 'Night' and 'Scorpion', as well as drawing the reader in with curiosity, but he does so in a different manner. Ezekiel uses the simplicity of the words to give the reader a taste of his work and plays upon the emotions that words such as 'Night' and 'Scorpion' arouse in people. Scorpions are considered very deadly and unlucky creatures throughout the world and when the reader sees this word immediately
Cultural Appropriation and Its Affects On Other Cultures.
Cultural Appropriation and Its Affects On Other Cultures By: Ashley Dwan 200234647 Indian Studies 100-S01 Prof. Heather Hodgson This past Halloween I dressed up as a China Doll; in my black traditional Asian dress, white painted face, rosy pink cheeks, black eyeliner, and my hair held up in a bun with chopsticks. I originally thought that this costume would be rather attractive and fun. However, I began to question myself after a young lady approached me and asked, "Are you suppose to be an Asian person?" I immediately replied, "No, I am a beautiful China Doll". Did people believe that I was "attempting to portray a stereotyped representation of another race"?1This is not what I had intended and this now had disturbing implications. I had attended the party earlier with a Chinese friend of mine. He took no offence to what I was wearing- this was I later found out after questioning him. So when does cultural "borrowing" become ignorant appropriation? This also brings up the questions of: Can cultural appropriation be defined and can it be avoided? With the new fads of Chinese character tattoo's, Hindu god t-shirts, and the selling of such things as Native sweat lodge kits and ceremonies, does this not show that North Americans can appreciate other cultures and that western culture has become a product of a multicultural society.1 Through examples of film and art,
Compaison of two poems - 'Night Over Birkenau' and 'Earrings.'
Compare and contrast: Night over Birkenau and Earrings This essay will be analysing and contrasting two poems relating to the Auschwitz concentration camp during WWII and how it diversely affected Jews. The first poem is 'Night over Birkenau,' a first hand experience poem written by Tadeusz Borowski to display the daily lives of Jewish prisoners in concentration camps and 'Earrings,' a second generation poem by Annette Bialik Harchik, written to inform readers how Jewish women were imprisoned whilst exploring aspects such as the racial discrimination by Nazi Germans in the Auschwitz concentration camp. By exploring these aspects it seems that the poems are written to give a voice to the deceased Jews who have died without having the chance to inform the world about the inhumane crimes inflict upon them deceitfully. From the start of 'Night over Birkenau' readers are given a clear insight to the poem's setting, hence the title 'Night over Birkenau.' This gives readers the sense of insecurity as a setting in the night is likely to be more vile. This is then reinforced in, "Again the grim sky closes." 'Grim' gives readers a sense of horror; and 'sky closes' evidently proves that the prisoners are captivated in this horror, it is inescapable. 'Again' reinforces that it is cyclic, constant and never ending within their hearts. The Jews' feeling of horror is initially
What can you learn about teenage fashion from source one?
WHAT CAN YOU LEARN ABOUT TEENAGE FASHION FROM SOURCE ONE? A woman who grew up in the 1950s writes source 1. She is talking in the 1980s therefore it is a secondary source. It tells us about teenage fashion in the 1950s, and the lengths that the teenagers went to, to keep up with the new fashions. Being something that played a huge role in a teenager's life. Although it is only one persons opinion about what happened in the 1950s. It tells us of the female fashion in the 1950s. The girls in the 1950s went to such lengths to buy a sewing machine. 'When I first started work I bought a sewing machine'. Also the girls purchased new material every week to make new clothes 'every week I'd buy material to make a dress for the weekend'. We can infer from this that the girls were desperate to stay up to date with the fashions of the time. The fashions were full skirts, and lots of petticoats. The amount of time that they spent on fashion was tremendous. If they made a dress every week, that is a lot of time to spend on fashion. The source stresses the importance of fashion in the minds of young women (teenage girls). It was so important to them that they had to make their own clothes. The idea that they made their clothes themselves lets us infer that the shops did not yet make the clothes that they wanted. It says that the 'dress-makers were always busy'. But although this source
Different Cultures
Explore how relationships are constrained and influenced by the traditions and restrictions of the different cultures evident in the short stories in section 3 of the Edexcel anthology. Country Lovers, A Stench of Kerosene and Veronica are stories that share large similarities with each other. The out come of each story emotionally affected the characters in each of them. The resulting out come is due to cultural laws. These three stories all have a powerful say in culture in different parts of the world. They each expose the life of people living in a culture much different to culture in England. The outcome of A Stench of Kerosene demonstrates what it was like for a woman in North India to be barren. There is no real bad and good culture because they are all seen from different points of view. English culture can easily be judged by some one living in a culture completely different to ours. Culture is different every where but as the day ages so can culture. These three stories really outline the gender segregation, cultural segregation, racial segregation and educational segregation. What is interesting to find in these short stories are how people can be so excepting to their culture and it shows us how culture is something we all follow through and is passed on to us and we pass it on to our children. It could be said that arranged marriages are bad but then again in an
Signalman and Red Room analysis
With reference to the two short stories, "The Red Room" by H.G. Wells and "The Signalman" by Charles Dickens, consider the ways in which tension and suspense are built up for the reader. "The Signalman" was published by Charles Dickens in 1866 during the mid-Victorian period where at that particular time there was a conflict between scientific and modern thoughts with the old beliefs. This period was witnessing the industrial revolution. It was a time of great change whether in inventions or advances in technology and science. The story refers to inventions that were made recently including railways which were beginning to extend over the country as well as steam trains and signal boxes which now seem to us as an old invention, but at that time, they were great inventions that were remarkable. During that time there were very harsh class divisions between the high and low class. Charles Dickens published the story almost a year after he personally eye witnessed a railway accident which killed ten people and injured more. "The Red Room" was published in 1894 by H.G. Wells, it was written in the late Victorian age. "The Red Room" is quite different from the "The Signalman" because it is written more in the gothic type genre. Gothic story-telling is a type of horror which engages any mystic or unnatural powers that would terrify the reader, such as ghosts or haunted castles. The
The three stories I have been studying
Explore how relationships are constrained and influenced by the traditions of the different cultures evident in the short stories in section 3 of the Edexcel anthology. The three stories I have been studying are, Country Lovers, A Stench Of Kerosene and Veronica. The three stories are similar to each other, as they are all about relationships, influences that effects their decisions and how their families are put under pressure by one and other and gender segregation. This occurs in everyday life in some areas of the world. In the Country Lovers the story is set in South Africa. A Stench Of Kerosene is set in Northern India and it's about a man's love for his barren wife and how his mother constrains his life, Veronica is set in Nigeria and it's about a young girl growing up and how her fate was sealed and she didn't have a say in the matter and her friendship between her best friend Okeke and how he tries to persuade her to come to the city with him to live a better life but she turns it down for a numerous reasons. In Country Lovers there is a lot of segregation happening such as racial, economic and educational. We can see this because in the story we are told that at young ages black and white children are split from each other even if they had become friends they would still be taken to different schools where the white children would have been given better education for
